[Dovecot] 1.0.rc10 released
Ian Mortimer
ian at physics.uq.edu.au
Tue Oct 17 03:27:39 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:48 +0200, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> > find /path -name dovecot.index.\* | xargs rm
>
> find /path -name 'dovecot.index.*' -exec rm {} \;
The version with xargs is much more efficient on a large file store.
The second version forks a separate rm process for each file.
xargs forks the minimum number of rm processes required by the shell.
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Ian
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